REP. LORETTA SANCHEZ TO CO-HOST COMMUNITY TOWN HALL IN WESTMINSTER WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46), founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Vietnam, will co-host a community town hall, featuring United States Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, this Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. PST. The town hall will focus on Vietnam’s deteriorating human rights record and development of democracy as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations. Continue reading→

In the end, it was much ado about nothing. The gay activists who had spent all week complaining about not being able to participate in the 2013 Tet Parade, which is held in Little Saigon every year and celebrates the Chinese Lunar New Year, did not march in the parade, which the Orange Juice blog reported that they would.

However they did show up to the parade. They set up west of the parade grandstand – I was standing east of the grandstand and never saw them – which means the 90% of the parade attendees who were east of the grandstand also did not see them.

But there were plenty of other politicians there, as seen in our picture slideshow above, including:

The Democratic Party of Orange County and the Orange County Young Democrats are hosting an Election Night watch party, on Tuesday night, Nov. 6, starting at 8 pm. The party will be held at Original Mike’s, in Santa Ana, at 100 South Main St.

RSVP at info@ocdemocrats.org of (714)835-5158. Suggested Donation of $5.00. Light appetizers will be served. Continue reading→

Former President Bill Clinton is speaking today at UC Irvine for a Get Out the Vote Rally. He will be endorsing several Democratic candidates for Congress and rallying local Democrats to Get Out The Vote on November 6th.

The candidates include Julia Brownley, Alan Lowenthal, Scott Peters, Dr. Paul Ruiz, and Mark Takano. They are all longshots except for Lowenthal, who might win a seat in the Long Beach area. Continue reading→